поплавать

Perfective verbs form a simple future that takes present-tense endings but describes a completed action.

• онheпоплавал
• онаsheпоплавала
• оноitпоплавало
• ониtheyпоплавали

• Active pastпоплававший
• Adverbial (past)поплавав

• На озере мы поплавали полчаса.

  We swam in the lake for half an hour.

• Хочешь поплавать перед завтраком?

  Want to go for a swim before breakfast?

• Delimitative perfective of multidirectional плавать (not unidirectional плыть!): a bounded period of swimming about. Regular class 1a, stem-stressed throughout. Pair contrast: поплавать = swim around for a while; поплыть = set off swimming in one direction.

• знать[1a]know, be aware, be acquainted
• иметь[1a]have
• сделать[1a]make
• делать[1a]make, do
• думать[1a]think, consider, reflect
• работать[1a]work, operate